DPPF ligand aryl halides

Indoles, pyrroles, and carbazoles themselves are suitable substrates for palladium-catalyzed coupling with aryl halides. Initially, these reactions occurred readily with electron-poor aryl halides in the presence of palladium and DPPF, but reactions of unactivated aryl bromides were long, even at 120 °C. Complexes of sterically hindered alkylmonophosphines have been shown to be more active catalysts (Equation (25)). 8 102 103 In the presence of these more active catalysts, reactions of electron-poor or electron-rich aryl bromides and electron-poor or electron-neutral aryl chlorides occurred at 60-120 °C. Reactions catalyzed by complexes of most of the /-butylphosphines generated a mixture of 1- and 3-substituted indoles. In addition, 2- and 7-substituted indoles reacted with unhindered aryl halides at both the N1 and C3 positions. The 2-naphthyl di-t-butylphosphinobenzene ligand in Equation (25), however, generated a catalyst that formed predominantly the product from A-arylation in these cases. 

Reactions of aryl halides with phenoxides or phenols (Equation (30)) and base catalyzed by complexes of these ligands occurred in significantly higher yields than did the same reactions catalyzed by complexes of DPPF or BINAP. For example, a large number of diaryl ethers have... 

The N-aryl imines 412 as protected anilines can be prepared by Pd-catalysed arylation of benzophenone imine with aryl halides using DPPF and BINAP as ligands, and aniline derivatives are obtained by deprotection [204a],... 

For the reactions of aryl halides with diarylamines (equation 17), the P(tol-o)3 ligand gives good yields in most cases, but catalyst loads of 5-10% were typically required99. In some cases, palladium complexes bearing DPPF as ligand are more effective catalysts for the formation of triarylamines, and can even produce unsymmetrical triarylamines in a one-step addition of two aryl halides sequentially to an aniline100. 

Extensive mechanistic studies have been conducted on the oxidative addition of aryl halides to Pd(0) complexes ligated by PPh3 in different media and with different additives175, 176. However, palladium complexes containing these ligands are not active catalysts for amination. Instead, one must consider the addition of aryl halides to palladium complexes bound by ligands relevant to amination. Studies of the mechanism of oxidative addition to palladium(O) complexes of P(tol-o)3, DPPF, BINAP, Q-phos, P(Bu-f)3 and an /V-heterocyclic carbene ligand have been reported. 

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